historical 

 Its most improved state ever 

 amounted to. 



The loises by the insurrec- 

 tions at St Domingo, are esti- 

 mated at more than twenty- 

 five millions sterling. 



The frost at Rouen has been 

 as severe as it was lately in 

 England ; and the blol'som of 

 the pears, peaches, and apricots, 

 is entirely cut off. 



On Feb. 15. The queen of 

 Portugal continued without any 

 abatement of her disorder, and 

 daily prayers were offering up 

 for her recovery. 



A general terror prevails at 

 Constantinople. A man having 

 whilst the Grand Signior was 

 at prayers, thrown a ball of 

 lead at him, it was conjectured 

 that a conspiracy was on foot ; 

 in consequence of which his 

 Highnefs ifsued orders to b?.- 

 nilh all those who were not 

 sufficiently knowiT to the offi- 

 cers of police, and hundreds of 

 persons are daily transported to 

 Asia in tlie most violent man- 

 ner. 



Do ?d EC TIC. 

 Nothing has occurred dur- 

 ing the present sefsion of parlia- 

 ment that is of much impor- 

 tance. Every question has 

 been carried with great ease, in 

 the w:iy that administration 

 withed it ffiould go. liumour, 

 however, says that the riding 

 powers of this country, are at 

 last convinced of what tliey 



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ought to have knawn long ago> 

 that the war in India is destiuc- 

 tive to the interest of this 

 country, and if persisted in 

 might prove fatal. Orders it 

 is said have been forwarded to 

 lord Cornwallis to put an end 

 to it immediately, without re- 

 gard to his allies, if they refuse 

 to listen to reasonable pro- 

 posals. Some people may con- 

 demn this as improper conduct j 

 but impartial persons will say, 

 that he who does not persist in 

 an error when he once sees he 

 is wrong, is nearest to him who 

 never committed r.n error at alL 

 And where is the man that caa 

 lay claim to this character ? 



In the country at large, no- 

 thing seems to engrofs the at- 

 tention of the people, so much 

 as the abolition of tlie slave 

 trade. 1 here is scarcely a 

 community or a description of 

 men who have not rnet toge- 

 ther, and either publili>ed re- 

 solves inimical to the slave 

 trade, or petitioned parliament 

 tor its abolition. Whether le- 

 gislature will pay attention to 

 these petitions, or disregard 

 them, as coming from pcopie, • 

 many of whom are undoubted- 

 ly incapable ot judging, as ta 

 the political expicluncy oi the 

 measure they condemn, a little 

 time will now discover, as the 

 cause comes on in tlie House of 

 Commons on the 29:h instar.t. 



Admirers of the fine arts, 

 have sustained a great iofs since 

 our la't, by the dciith of Sir 



